BECKETT, Samuel Barclay (1906-1989) and Avigdor ARIKHA (b. 1929, artist). Au loin un oiseau . New York: Fequet and Baudier for The Double Elephant Press, 1973. 2° (436 x 382mm). French and English titles, text in French. 5 etched plates by and after Avigdor Arikha printed by Imprimerie Artistique Bellini and signed in pencil beneath each image by the artist, retaining tissue guards. Loose as issued in original paper sleeve titled on upper panel, original cloth box titled on spine. Provenance : Emmanuel Moses (b. 1959). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 120 COPIES, THIS NO. 4 OF 90 SIGNED ON THE COLOPHON BY BECKETT AND BY ARIKHA BENEATH THE ETCHINGS. Au loin un oiseau was the sixth of Beckett's foirades , a group of short pieces written between 1972 and the end of the author's life, and was the first to be published in book form (the others having appeared in the journal Minuit ). This copy is an ASSOCIATION COPY from the library of the poet and translator Emmanuel Moses, who translated How it Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett by Arikha's wife Anne Atik, into French as Comment c'était: souvenirs sur Samuel Beckett (Paris: Éditions de l'Olivier, 2003). For another work by Beckett from Moses' library see the previous lot. Cf. Lake, Eichhorn and Leach No Symbols Where None Intended 396 (page proofs).
BECKETT, Samuel Barclay (1906-1989) and Avigdor ARIKHA (b. 1929, artist). Au loin un oiseau . New York: Fequet and Baudier for The Double Elephant Press, 1973. 2° (436 x 382mm). French and English titles, text in French. 5 etched plates by and after Avigdor Arikha printed by Imprimerie Artistique Bellini and signed in pencil beneath each image by the artist, retaining tissue guards. Loose as issued in original paper sleeve titled on upper panel, original cloth box titled on spine. Provenance : Emmanuel Moses (b. 1959). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 120 COPIES, THIS NO. 4 OF 90 SIGNED ON THE COLOPHON BY BECKETT AND BY ARIKHA BENEATH THE ETCHINGS. Au loin un oiseau was the sixth of Beckett's foirades , a group of short pieces written between 1972 and the end of the author's life, and was the first to be published in book form (the others having appeared in the journal Minuit ). This copy is an ASSOCIATION COPY from the library of the poet and translator Emmanuel Moses, who translated How it Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett by Arikha's wife Anne Atik, into French as Comment c'était: souvenirs sur Samuel Beckett (Paris: Éditions de l'Olivier, 2003). For another work by Beckett from Moses' library see the previous lot. Cf. Lake, Eichhorn and Leach No Symbols Where None Intended 396 (page proofs).
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